If I’m teaching myself, what am I paying you for?

For those of you who check regularly, don’t expect any Zozer pix at school today. She’s at Grandma’s again. We’re hoping we can kick this cold before Halloween, so we thought we’d play it safe and keep her away from all the other little snotballs for another day. She’s doing better – was able to breathe (somewhat) through her nose this morning, but now she sounds raspy and she’s coughing a bit more.

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Achoo!

Milestone: Zozer has caught her first cold at school. She’s basically a little snotball with watery eyes…but I think she’s already on the mend. We elevated one end of her crib last night, and I held her in The Big Purple Rocking Chair until she fell asleep. Lots of fluids, the humidifier, and two attacks of the Big Green Monster (otherwise known as the aspirator). You’d think we were twisting her nose off by the way she yells when she sees that thing coming.

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These MBA classes are really helping!

A fine weekend was had by our little family, complete with barbecue two days in a row (to M’s delight), pizza two days in a row (to my delight), being chased by scary mass murderers and zombies (some wielding chain saws, to Michelle’s dismay), a train ride, a birthday party, and a visit to the pumpkin patch. Damn, come to think of it, we packed a lot of fun into one weekend!

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Define decrepit…

After homework last night I perused photo.net, which is one of my most favorite things to do if I can’t actually be out making images, or don’t currently have anything I feel like futzing with in Photoshop.

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The glass is half-FULL, dammit

In a day filled with utter crapiness (or is it crappiness? I’m not quite sure the correct spelling of crapiness, but one p looks better than two, so we’re going with that one)(also, does anyone really know if turd is the correct spelling of turd, or could it be terd? I haven’t had the guts to see if it’s in Webster’s, and I really don’t care all that much…it’s just more of an idle curiosity…and a firm belief that it could go either way), there were a few bright spots:

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No-warning portraits

Right before leaving for work today, I ran back inside and grabbed my camera bag. Today was the last decent weather day for awhile (til the end of the week, at least), and you never know when a shot might appear.

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